White Widow has become household name in most Kenyans mouths,this is strengthened by the fact that the British fugitive was amongst the masterminds of the terror attack that rocked Westgate in September leaving nearly 70 people dead.
Investigators are working around clock to piece up evidence to aid in trapping Samantha who is now one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. She has been largely mentioned as one of the key masterminds in the recent terror attacks and also has been linked to be planning more deadly attacks in Kenya.
Samantha using a fake passport had been nabbed by Kenyan authorities back in 2011 in Mombasa but she slipped out of the police trap and fled the country together with her four children.
A wife to suicide bomber in London,white widow is said to a dangerous weapon. Investigators have been combing out the hard drive of computer that she left in her Mombasa apartment to extract more valuable information.
In the 2000+ file drive,the investigative team consisting of FBI and Kenyan agencies have established that for seven months in 2011 Samantha lived at an apartment adjacent to junction shopping mall in Nairobi,a building which intelligence reports has linked widely as one of the terror attack targets.
A neighbour told the investigators that Samantha would go shopping at the mall taking as much as 4 hours there.
Despite not having a substantial job,the white widow paid sh.60,000 or €500 monthly rent in the three bedrooms mansion she lived in with her four kids.
The hard drives captured also reveals the websites browsing history most frequented by Samantha. Amongst areas largely googled includes body image,dieting,fitness,self defence,research on making bombs and explosives.
In the files also a poem written to Osama afte his assassination by American special forces was captured where she confess her love to Osama terming it as “like no other”
The excerpts of the poem,laced with terror threats;
“To seek the victory until we are
martyred. To instill terror into kuffar (non-Muslims) …Your life an example of how we should be.
As for our enemies our words will be less,You picked the wrong army to contest. Al Qaeda are stronger and fiercer than ever.” She wrote warning Jihad is not over and it just gained momentum.
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